> Locality and the pride of the local team. Do you cheer for your country's Olympic team? The big difference is that members of the Olympic team are citizens o

> Locality and the pride of the local team. Do you cheer for your country's Olympic team? The big difference is that members of the Olympic team are citizens of the country, so the connection to you is clear (one of your "own" is doing well), while that's not the case for local teams. Often, they're not even from the same country (ex. lot of players for Canadian NHL teams are from the US, and vice versa). So the only local part is the shell itself. Sounds vaguely related to "Ship of Theseus" I suppose.